Wed 42 Years; Quits Mate

1920

Wife Bases Her Suit on Man's Love Affair of 1898.

MANCHESTER, N. H. — Mrs. Ida Pingree has brought suit for divorce against her husband, John D. Pingree, after nearly forty-two years of married life. She bases her claim for a separation on an alleged love affair of her husband twenty-two years ago. Mrs. Pingree has attached her husband's property here and in the neighboring town of Derry, where he is a prosperous farmer. The wife is living with a married daughter.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Aug. 7, 1920, p. 3.

Wins French Bride in 13 Minutes

1920

Yank Voted Speed Demon of A. E. F.

SOMERSWORTH, N. H. — Paul J. St. Jean, wounded hero of this town, has returned with his French bride whom he met for fifteen minutes in Angouleme, France, while on his way to the front in 1918, wooed by mail and made a special trip to her home to marry.

Now the citizens of this ordinarily quiet village vote unanimously that Jean can claim the A. E. F. record for a speedy courtship. And Jean says nothing. His record speaks for itself.

Mrs. Paul J. St. Jean has settled down to learn the English language.

Private Paul J. St. Jean left Somersworth in 1917 with the Yankee Division for France. He went thru every battle from the engagement at Seicheprey to Chateau Thierry, where he was felled with a machine gun bullet in the first American push. Out of the fighting, he was invalided to Camp Hospital 5, near Bordeaux. For over two months he hovered between death and life, and on Sept. 29th left again for the front to join his division.

Could Speak Language.

Then Cupid got in his work. While serenely traveling by train at the rate of three knots an hour, the French Limited stopped at the town of Angouleme. On the platform watching the train pull in were three French mademoiselles. Jean had the advantage. He was the only doughboy on the limited that knew French without the aid of a "French Made Easy" book, so he engaged the young women in conversation.

Two of the girls talked. The other didn't. Thruout the fifteen minutes that the train waited, a quiet French maiden of 16 summers hung back, saying nothing but thinking a whole lot. That young lady is now Mrs. Jean.

Jean, like any enterprising Yank, took their addresses and corresponded from the front. The shy young miss, whose name was Gabrielle Deleichelle, and whose father was at the front during the war, made it known to Jean thru her sisters' letter that she wanted to write.

Kept Writing to Girl.

The soldier came home with his division and started on a course of vocational training in New York. Altho unable to visit his young friend on his way home, he kept up the correspondence, which grew more interesting with each succeeding letter. In June, 1919, the obvious happened. They became engaged with the aid of a 5-cent stamp and several pages of uncensored French.

The vocational training complete, on April 10th of this year, the Yankee hero sailed from New York, arrived at Angouleme, and on May 17th married the young lady who had kept the postmasters at Somersworth and Angouleme busy for nearly two years.

Mr. and Mrs. Jean then came home. They visited New York and spent three days in Boston. But the big cities displeased Mrs. Jean. She liked the quietude of country places like Somersworth, and So they arrived home on her eighteenth birthday.

Mrs. Jean admires her soldier husband, is amazed at the progressiveness of America, but says with a far-away look: "I will always love my old France and expect to go back some day," and Mr. Jean, who is of French descent himself, is quite willing to go, too.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Aug. 7, 1920, p. 1.

U. S. Crop Report

1916

Maine

Corn — September 1 forecast, 477,000 bushels; production last year, final estimate, 656,000 bushels.

Oats — September 1 forecast, 5,540,000 bushels; production last year, final estimate, 6,080,000 bushels.

Barley — September 1 forecast, 135,000 bushels; production last year, final estimate, 132,000 bushels.

Potatoes — September 1 forecast, 25,700,000 bushels; production last year, final estimate, 22,010,000 bushels.

Hay — Preliminary estimate, 1,830,000 tons; production last year, final estimate, 1,397,000 tons.

Apples — September 1 forecast, 1,550,000 barrels; production last year, final estimate, 720,000 barrels.

New Hampshire.

Corn — September 1 forecast, 798,000 bushels; production last year, final estimate, 990,000 bushels.

Oats — September 1 forecast, 442,000 bushels; production last year, final estimate, 456,000 bushels.

Potatoes — September 1 forecast. 1,940,000 bushels; production last year, final estimate, 1,520,000 bushels.

Hay — Preliminary estimate, 767,000 tons; production last year, final estimate, 504,000 tons.

Apples — September 1 forecast, 510,000 barrels; production last year, final estimate, 353,000 barrels.

United States.

Corn — September 1 forecast, 2,710,000,000 bushels; production last year, final estimate, 3,054,535,000 bushels.

Oats — September 1 forecast, 1,230,000,000 bushels; production last year, final estimate, 1,540,362,000 bushels.

Barley — September 1 forecast, 184,000,000 bushels; production last year, final estimate, 237,009,000 bushels.

Rye — September 1 forecast, 41,884,000 bushels; production last year, final estimate, 49,190,000 bushels.

Potatoes — September 1 forecast, 318,000,000 bushels; production last year, final estimate, 359,103,000 bushels.

Hay — Preliminary estimate, 86,200,000 tons; production last year, final estimate, 85,225,000 tons.

Apples — September 1 forecast, 67,700,000 barrels; production last year, final estimate, 76,670,000 barrels.

—The Fryeburg Post, Fryeburg, Maine, Sept. 12, 1916, p. 6.

New Courthouse

New Hampshire, 1916

Ossipee, N. H., Sept. 9. — Carroll County's new courthouse, of Colonial design, recently erected to take the place of the wooden building destroyed in the fire of June 23, 1915, which wiped out a large section of the heart of Ossipee Village, is one of the handsomest in the State. Its cost, exclusive of the furnishings, was approximately $40,000. The equipment cost several thousand dollars more.

The structure occupies the site pf the old Courthouse, but sits back about 30 feet farther from the village square. It has a frontage of 53 ft. 3 in. and a depth of 94 ft. 4in., and is two stories high. The exterior is dark red brick, laid in white mortar, with trimmings of Indiana limestone. The portico at the front is supported by large colonial columns. There is a side entrance to the rear section.

The admirably arranged interior includes the courtroom on the first floor, 46 ft. 3 in. x 39 ft. 5 in., and the height of two stories; the offices of the County Commissioner, register of deeds, register of probate, clerk of court, judge's room, Grand and Petit Jury rooms, lawyers' library and vaults for the court and county records.

Special attention has been paid to the acoustical treatment of the courtroom. In this, it is said, the builders have succeeded well. The room will seat about 200 spectators.

The judge's, jurors' and lawyers' rooms are conveniently arranged at the rear of the courtroom and it is only a step from the judge's room to the bench.

The officers of the commissioners and clerk of court are on the first floor in the front of the building and those of the two registers are similarly placed on the second floor. All are large and well lighted.

The building is strictly fireproof. It has fire walls and steel enters largely into the interior construction. The stairway at the front of the building is of marble with steel bannisters.

Steel wall cases and other equipment of the latest design are used in the offices. The courtroom furniture and the desks, chairs and tables throughout the building are of quartered oak.

Unique among the courthouses of the State, this one is equipped with its own electric lighting plant. It is heated by steam, and the compressed air system is used for supplying all parts of the building with running water, which is pumped from a spring about 50 yards away from the building. The basement includes, besides the heating, electric and water systems, a prisoner's cell. The building is equipped with fire escapes.

—The Fryeburg Post, Fryeburg, Maine, Sept. 12, 1916, p. 3.

Passages From The Early History of Brownfield

Maine/New Hampshire, 1916

By Hon. Eli B. Bean.

Schools.

After the settlement of a portion of the sixty families Brown had obligated himself to settle in his grant of land, and these had erected for themselves log cabins and commenced clearing the then unbroken forest, those families located near each other began to think about schools for their children. Under such circumstances as they were then situated the question of establishing schools and erecting suitable houses for same was a problem hard to solve. Yet it was boldly and firmly met with all the means in their power and with partial success, in many cases the mothers and older children acting as teachers and some portion of the larger houses, or some out building, serving as a school room for the time being. The hardships and privations endured by those pioneers of our township would quite discourage the people of the present generation. Yet they were ever sustained with the hope of making a home for their young families. The first building erected for a schoolhouse was situated not far from the present junction of the road from Denmark, with the road to Fryeburg at East Brownfield railroad crossing, and was built prior to the incorporation of the town. It was at this schoolhouse where the first town meeting for the election of town officers was held after its incorporation in 1802. In 1806 a town meeting was again called to meet at this "schoolhouse near John Bolt Miller's" and no further mention is made of the house, either for school purposes or town business.

In 1803 the town voted to raise fifty dollars for school purposes, but there is no record of it having been expended, or, if expended, where or how. At the same town meeting the Selectmen of the town (Joshua Ames, Cyrus Ingalls and Lieut. John Goodenow) were directed to divide the town into school district and they reporting the following:

District No. 1. Beginning at Timothy Gibson, Esq., and to include all the inhabitants on and about "Beech Hill" and on the main road as far as Wilson Howard's, including Josiah Spring and his neighborhood that are in Brownfield to be one district. We recommend two schoolhouses to be built in the most convenient places to accommodate the inhabitants of said district.

District No. 2. Beginning at Benjamin and George Lord's and including the settlement on towards Fryeburg (east side Saco river) as far as school rights of land, so called, now owned by Lieut. Joshua Ames and John Howe, and we do recommend one schoolhouse to be set in the most convenient place to accommodate the inhabitants of said district.

District No: 3. Beginning at Lieut. Joshua Ames' and John Howe's land, as mentioned in the second district, and on the main road to Fryeburg line. Lieut. Asa Osgood and others in that neighborhood, also all those persons on the west side of the river, below Wilson Howard's, we recommend to draw their money, providing they will lay it out for schools in said town.

In March, 1804 it was voted to raise one hundred and fifteen dollars for support of schools in town and that each district should build their own schoolhouses. At the town meeting held in March, 1805, the town voted not to raise any money for school purposes, but at a second meeting called in April the same year, they appeared to repent of such action, and the town voted to raise $115 for schooling the present year. From this date on until 1820 the town raised various sums for schooling from $115 to $250 annually.

NO schoolhouses were built in districts No. 2 and No. 3 prior to the change in town lines in 1807 and their schools were kept in private houses. At the first town meeting held in Brownfield in 1807, after a portion of the town had been annexed to the towns of Denmark and Hiram, and the north part of Porterfield annexed to Brownfield, the town selected Timothy Gibson, Esq., John Sands and Nathaniel Merrill as a committee to divide the town into school districts and they reported as follows in October of same year and their report then accepted:

District No. 1 Beginning at Timothy Gibson Esquire's, and extending to Wilson Howard's.

District No. 2. Beginning at William Merrill's and extending to John Sand's on the Merrill road to take in Mr. Thompson and David Mansfield and "athuat" Sheppard's river so as to embrace Timothy Gibson, Jr.

District No. 3. To take all on the south side of Sheppard's river to Porter line.

District No. 4. To take all on the north side of Sheppard's river.

At the same meeting the town voted to allow any person to send their scholars to either school they chose, but that each district should retain their own school money.

School district No. 2, the Centre district, was the first to build a schoolhouse under the new organization of the town. In 1808, the district voted to build a schoolhouse and locate it "on the ridge at the foot of Dugway hill, below John Sand's" the size of the house to be twenty-two feet by twenty-six feet square, and voted to raise two hundred dollars for that purpose, selecting John Sands, Lieut. James Steele as a committee to build the house. Timothy Gibson, Jr., was clerk of the district meeting. As many of the inhabitants in the district wished to pay their tax in labor or material, a vote was taken to establish the price the committee were to allow for such as furnished. The same year (1808) District No. 1 voted to build a house, locating it in the centre between Esq. Timothy Gibson's and Wilson Howard's. The house was erected near the Maj. Stickney homestead. Daniel Gibson was clerk of the meeting and Timothy Gibson, Esq., Wm. Webster and John Stickney, selected as building committee, and one hundred and thirty dollars raised for the purpose, the house near John B. Miller's having been destroyed or abandoned.

The frame of the house was erected by Daniel Gibson for which the committee paid him thirty dollars. The following year, Dec. 30, 1809, the district voted to raise 85 dollars to finish the house and have the committee call on the Selectmen to furnish a school teacher as soon as they think proper. No record of any school in this district for the years 1808 and 1809, but they probably had schools kept in private houses during those years.

There is mention of school in 1810, when Maj. John Stickney was paid two dollars per week for board of teacher (probably Sally Mansfield) and tuition, and the district "voted to have a lock on schoolhouse, and allow any denomination go into the house to worship God."

District No. 3 voted to build a school in 1809 and locate it on land deeded to the district by Andrew Wentworth, near the Wentworth homestead. Luke Mills, Ichabod Ricker and Isaac Merrill were chosen committee to build the house. Most of the orders given by the building committee for labor and materials are now in good condition and on file with the town papers in Selectmen's office.

In 1811 an effort was made to have the town assume the expense of the schoolhouses already erected in Districts 1, 2 and 3, and finish the same for schools, also "to build such other schoolhouses in town as may become necessary." The town voted not to build any schoolhouses, but voted to aid District No. 2 to rebuild, contributing one hundred dollars for same, conditioned that the town could hold their town meetings there and that the house be free for each religious denomination to hold Sunday meetings, each denomination to have its equal share of the time. The size of the house to be 28 feet by 30 feet square, and to locate same in the forks of the road in front of Dr. Hadley's.

It was in this house Rev. Jacob Rice, the first settled in town, was preaching when he was stricken with heart failure and died within a few hours afterwards at the house of Dr. Hadley.

W. S. H.

—The Fryeburg Post, Fryeburg, Maine, Sept. 12, 1916, p. 3.

New Hampshire Neighbors — East Sweden

New Hampshire/Maine, 1916

Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Bisbee and Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Marr went to Lewiston to the State fair September 6.

D. T. Adams was home Sunday, Sept. 3.

Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Bisbee were in Rumford September 3.

A number went from here to the town hall September 6 to hear William M. Ingraham speak.

Fred Barton went with the Haskell family to Bridgton September 8.

Harold Porter made a flying call at H. Haskell's September 10.

—The Fryeburg Post, Fryeburg, Maine, Sept. 12, 1916, p. 3.

New Hampshire Neighbors — Sweden

New Hampshire/Maine, 1916

Leslie Chandler, who got so badly burned by the bursting of a gasolene torch while soldering some milk cans recently, is gaining.

The remains of Miss Louise Brackett were brought from Cumberland Mills to her sister, Mrs. Martha Chandler's. The funeral was held Thursday. [*]

Sweden grange held its regular meeting Saturday evening, Sept. 9, with nine members present.

Charlie Bailey hauled stove wood for Walter Evans Monday.

Miss Mable Trimback is doing housework for Mrs. W. E. Evans.

M. E. Perry and wife and Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Moulton were in Portland Saturday, going in Mr. Perry's new auto.

Mr. and Mrs. James H. Bennett are visiting his brother, Charles Bennett.

Mrs. Fordyce Gammon and daughter Emily are visiting her sisters, Mrs. Ernest Bennett, and Cleora Saunders, also her brother, Lindon Merrill.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Saunders and daughter of Portland are visiting his father, Lincoln Saunders, at O. P. Saunders'.

Miss Marion Moulton is visiting Mrs. Charlie Bailey and Mrs. Forest Hutchins.

Miss Louisa Moulton has gone to Massachusetts to visit her sister.

George Thompson and Ernest Bennett cut corn fodder into the silo for Lindon Merrill Thursday afternoon.

Hugh Smart helped Thell Bennett get in oats and hungarian Saturday.

—The Fryeburg Post, Fryeburg, Maine, Sept. 12, 1916, p. 3.

[*] Note: Original newspaper breaks this line "Thurs-" followed by "Number Four. [another linebreak] No. Four."

New Hampshire Neighbors — South Sweden

New Hampshire/Maine, 1916

Henry Emerson and Joe Willard made a business trip to Norway last week.

Hazel Plummer of Haverhill, Mass., is visiting her uncle, Enfield Plummer.

Mrs. Adelbert Stearns and two children of Lovell, also W. H. Smith visited at Charles Brackett's Sunday.

Royal Flint and George Thompson finished haying on the meadow Saturday.

Orin Plummer of Bridgton ridge spent Sunday at E. S. Plummer's.

Mrs. Florence Sawyer and Mrs. Carrie Adams visited at Henry Emerson's one day last week.

—The Fryeburg Post, Fryeburg, Maine, Sept. 12, 1916, p. 3.

New Hampshire Neighbors — West Denmark

New Hampshire/Maine, 1916

Mrs. Viola M. Walker has returned to her home in this neighborhood.

Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Warren, Mrs. Robert Ingalls, Mr. and Mrs. Enoch Sawyer and son Allan of South Bridgton visited at H. F. Lord's Thursday.

Mrs. Martha Ingalls and daughter, Mrs. Harlan Lord, were in Portland Friday.

Willis Thomes has moved his family to Kezar Falls.

—The Fryeburg Post, Fryeburg, Maine, Sept. 12, 1916, p. 3.

New Hampshire Neighbors — Brownfield

New Hampshire/Maine, 1916

Mrs. Alvan Smith and son, Percy, have been in town for awhile.

Mrs. Benjamin Howard is entertaining her daughter, Eva.

Miss Winnifield Jones has returned to her home in Eaton, N. H.

Sherman McDonald came home, Sunday.

Fred Files came up from Cornish Saturday evening.

Mrs. A. S. Lynch has been entertaining Miss Rachel Weston of Fryeburg.

Miss Ruth Peckham was in Portland Saturday and visited the Longfellow mansion.

Mrs. Lucian Snow of Portland has been a guest at Spring farm.

Rev. L. F. McDonald, Mrs. McDonald and children have returned from their vacation which they spent in camp.

Merlin Butterfield is in Denmark employed in the corn factory.

EdWin Poore has had extensive improvements made on his house.

Miss Mary Peckham is teaching in Eaton, N. H.

Eugene Poore, Fred Poore and the Misses Leola Butterfield and Clair Rowe are engaged in the corn shop.

On account of the critical illness of Mr. Hawe's mother, High school will not open for two weeks. All other schools began Monday.

—The Fryeburg Post, Fryeburg, Maine, Sept. 12, 1916, p. 3.

New Hampshire Neighbors — Watson Hill

New Hampshire/Maine, 1916

Frank Wilkinson and family from East Wakefield called to see his father Sunday for a short time. They came in an automobile.

Mrs. Ruth K. Moulton is spending her vacation on the Hill with her mother, Mrs. Sadie Kezar.

Mr. H. S. Rass and family returned to their home in Boston Saturday after spending a very pleasant summer at Hornheam Hill.

Mrs. Ida Waston[*] called on Mr. and Mrs. Eli Wilkin Sunday afternoon.

Most everyone is getting back to the city now and it leaves the summer places kind of lonesome until another year.

Mr. and Mrs. Alphonse Wilkin and son of Salem recently spent a few days with his father.

Miss Nellie Kezar spent the weekend of last week in Rochester returning Monday.

—The Fryeburg Post, Fryeburg, Maine, Sept. 12, 1916, p. 3.

Note: [*] Perhaps should be Ida Watson since the place is Watson Hill. Just a guess (educated), but I left it Waston.

New Hampshire Neighbors — West Brownfield

New Hampshire/Maine, 1916

Mrs. Horace Mason and son Harry of East Conway, N. H., were Sunday visitors at Mrs. James Dennett's.

Miss Peggy Comstock of South Conway, N. H., was seen in this neighborhood one day last week.

Walter Mason and wife and Lester Mason of Conway, N. H., were weekend visitors at J. L. Dennett's.

Among those seen in the neighborhood Sunday were: Thomas Harmon, M. L. Rounds and wife, Clayton Spring, Ralph Miller, Harold Littlefield and Ralph Bishop.

Mrs. F. M. Chamberlain, son Earle, M. L. Rounds and wife and Ralph Bishop made a motor trip to Ossipee Corners and Chocorua lake Sunday afternoon.

Mrs. Charles Stearns with her daughter, Mrs. Jenney, and granddaughter, Miss Jenney, of Brookline, Mass., were callers at Mrs. James Dennett's and at J. L. Dennett's one day last week.

A good many people are calling to inspect Lieut. Walker's new barn these days. This barn, we are told by those who should know, will be, when completed, the equal if not the superior in finish and modern equipment of any in the state. It is 113 feet long and 36 feet wide, and will have two tie-ups, one on each side, the cows facing each other with a walk for feeding purposes between. There will be steel tracks and carriers for handling both feed and manure; the floors will all be of concrete with steel stanchions. Two large silos of glazed hollow tile are already in place. A system of ventilation is being provided, having numerous air shafts connecting with three large metal ventilators on the roof arranged to turn with the wind. The finish of the building, both inside and outside, is excellent and we are told that the cost will exceed $13,000. This barn is being built on what was formerly the John Payne farm, on the road to South Conway, which Mr. Walker purchased some time ago.

School began Monday with Miss Murphy teaching here again.

—The Fryeburg Post, Fryeburg, Maine, Sept. 12, 1916, p. 3.

New Hampshire Neighbors — New Boston

New Hampshire/Maine, 1916

Mr. George Kennard has been helping Melvin Kennard repair his barn.

Mr. Leon Day of Kezar Falls spent Sunday with his uncle, Osgood Pendexter.

Mrs. S. P. French has returned to her home in Everett, Mass.

Mr. Stilman Chick has been helping Thomas Blake for the past few days.

Mr. Winslow Brown of Freedom called on Mr. Walter Sargent Friday.

—The Fryeburg Post, Fryeburg, Maine, Sept. 12, 1916, p. 3.

New Hampshire Neighbors — Porterfield

New Hampshire/Maine, 1916

Rev. Fred Ward held a conference at D. Huntress' Saturday afternoon.

Mr. Wallace Durgin and family visited at Darling Huntress' Wednesday.

Miss Luella Hartford, who has been visiting her father, L. R. Hartford, has returned to her home in Hollos.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Clemmons are at D. E. Jewett's for a while.

D. Huntress was in Brownfield on business one day last week.

—The Fryeburg Post, Fryeburg, Maine, Sept. 12, 1916, p. 3.

New Hampshire Neighbors — Hiram

New Hampshire/Maine, 1916

On Tuesday Mr. Albert F. Berry was sworn as Assistant Postmaster at Hiram Postoffice. This is a very good selection. Mr. George C. Bray, who has given excellent service as postmaster, has resigned and will soon leave the State to engage in other business.

Lieut. John W. Hubbard of Fryeburg visited his daughter, Mrs. Arthur W. Sadler, and his sister, Mrs. Mary E. Young, Tuesday.

We have not seen but about half a dozen fruit trees this year that have been stripped of foliage by brown-tailed moths.

Mr. Eli C. Wadsworth, whose buildings were burned July 29, has bought of Mr. Calvin F. Clemons, the farm formerly owned by Hon. John H. Spring, of 160 acres with ample buildings and he removed to it September 4th. Mr. Wadsworth was born upon the Spring farm, which adjoins his homestead. Llewellyn A. Wadsworth, who was severely burned at the fire on his back, right arm and shoulders, went to East Brownfield Tuesday to be treated by Dr. Marston. He is improving.

Mr. Cyrus H. Goodwin went to Brownfield Tuesday.

We note with pleasure that our old friend, Col. Abram W. Smith, of Topeka, Kansas, a native of South Hiram, has recently been selected at the primaries as a Republican candidate for Presidential elector. As he received 1889 votes more than any other Republican and 44293 votes more than any Democrat, it looks as if he would get there. He is a typical son of Maine. He went to Pennsylvania at the age of 17 and enlisted in the Union army, serving four years. He was in a rebel prison 18 months. He went to Kansas after the war. He was chairman of the Board of Managers of the Kansas Department in the Columbian Exhibition in Chicago in 1892. He has also served as state senator, speaker of the House of Representatives, candidate for Governor and U. S. Pension Agent. His lecture on the "Romance of the War," has won for him a reputation as one of the finest orators in the West, and his many friends have watched with pleasure and pride his long, useful and successful career.

James Evans, Esq., a prominent citizen of East Hiram, died Sept. 5, of Bright's disease, aged 77 years. A more extended tribute to this excellent man will be given later.

Master Charles Rounds of Malden, Mass., a grandson of Hon. Charles E. Hubbard of Kezar Falls, is visiting his aunt, Mrs. Mary E. Young. On Sunday morning he attended the Universalist church, and sang "The Holy City" as a solo. His wonderful voice and singing were a rich treat to all who heard him.

—The Fryeburg Post, Fryeburg, Maine, Sept. 12, 1916, p. 3.

New Hampshire Neighbors — South Hiram

New Hampshire/Maine, 1916

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Trueworthy and Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Stanley, Mrs. Mary Mason and Mrs. Ella R. Cotton attended the Pomona grange at North Baldwin on Thursday.

Mr. Melville Smith was a Portland visitor Friday.

Mrs. E. A. Silva and two daughters, Evelyn and Marian, were guests Tuesday of Mrs. Bertha Durgin.

Mr. Charles Smith was called to Brockton, Mass., Tuesday for a short stay.

Mr. and Mrs. Willis Thomes and two children, who have been in Denmark for the past year, have come to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. A. McDaniel, for an indefinite stay.

Mr. and Mrs. Noyes Stanley of Needham, Mass., are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Stanley.

Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Quint returned from their recent visit among their children Saturday.

—The Fryeburg Post, Fryeburg, Maine, Sept. 12, 1916, p. 3.

New Hampshire Neighbors — Snowville

New Hampshire/Maine, 1916

Miss Helen Blake of Brownfield has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. Inez White, but has now gone to her school in Francistown, N. H.

Hiram Mason of Yarmouth was a guest at J. C. Head's recently.

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Dennett were callers at W. N. Snow's recently.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Adams have closed their house for the season. He has returned to his home in New York while Mrs. Adams is stopping with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Greeley of the Hidden house.

Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Snow and Mr. and Mrs. Everett White and children, Seth and Bernice, took an auto trip to Ossipee, returning by way of Chocorua Lake and Conway.

Mr. Adrial Stuart of Parsonsfield spent the week-end with his sister, Mrs. Martha Doick.

Vernon Kenneson has returned to Amesbury, Mass., after visiting his parents for a few days.

Mr. Murphy and family are spending the remainder of the month on the Adams cottage.

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Snow and children have closed their home and have gone to Conway for the winter.

Dr. B. F. Horne of Conway was in town Saturday.

Jack Frost is expected any time now that dog days have gone.

—The Fryeburg Post, Fryeburg, Maine, Sept. 12, 1916, p. 3.

New Hampshire Neighbors — Greenhill

New Hampshire/Maine, 1916

Miss Lillian Weeks and Miss Alice Stanley returned to Westbrook Wednesday. Mrs. Bert Smith and Lillian went with them for a visit, coming home Monday.

Mr. and Mrs. Leon Hill and Elsie visited at Dexter Wiley's, Fryehurg Center, on Thursday.

Mr. Charles Blake and Harriet Blake of Portland were recent visitors at Madison Weeks'.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Eastman are spending a few days in Stow.

A. D. Weeks has been picking corn for Dean Ballard at West Fryeburg.

—The Fryeburg Post, Fryeburg, Maine, Sept. 12, 1916, p. 3.

New Hampshire Neighbors — South Conway

New Hampshire/Maine, 1916

A very pleasing entertainment was given at the chapel Tuesday evening by the young ladies of the summer colony, ably assisted by the few young gentlemen. Tableaux, singing, charades and finally the pinning of the Donkey's tail by the children all gave much amusement. Ice cream, cake, home-made candy, pop corn balls and peanuts were sold which with 10 cents admission netted the church $35.

Mr. T. P. Ivy has a new automobile and Will Jackson is his chauffeur.

Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Cook are also enjoying a new Ford automobile.

Mr. John Legere lost a nice young horse last week, tetanus caused by stepping on a rusty nail being the disease. Dr. Lord was sent for, but too late.

Mrs. Abbie Blood and daughter of Franklin, N. H., visited at A. E. Davidson's last week.

Miss Persis Davidson came home from Pendexter's Mansion last Wednesday.

Mr. John Potter and family called on friends in this place Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Stewart visited at J. M. Hatch's Sunday.

—The Fryeburg Post, Fryeburg, Maine, Sept. 12, 1916, p. 3.

New Hampshire Neighbors — Center Conway

New Hampshire/Maine, 1916

Fredrick Philbrook has been at Bar Harbor with his brother Ira for three weeks and returned home Saturday.

School began this week and a school has been started in South Conway for the first time in several years.

Miss Josephine Pratt was in town over Sunday, a guest of A. M. Littlefield, the teacher at Intervale this season.

George D. Petrie has been visiting in Portland for a few days.

H. A. Peare was not in his usual health the past week.

Alta M. Mason is visiting in Sebago this week.

Henry Snow and wife and Arthur Snow have gone to Bryantville, Mass., where they expect to stop for a couple of months.

Miss Helen Baird has gone to Akron, Ohio, for a short visit.

The vaudeville show given by the summer people in the church at South Conway last week attracted quite a number from here and was a great success and netted the church people over $40.

The return of the summer colony began last week. J. E. Nesmith's family, Luke Davis, Mrs. Fowler and a portion of J. A. Nesmith's family returned to the city last Saturday.

William Allen returned from Rockland Friday where he has been enjoying a two weeks' vacation.

Ivory Mason is laid up with a bad hand which has been in the care of a doctor.

Private theatricals were held at the W. H. Chapman camps Saturday night which were very much enjoyed by those who were invited to attend the affair which was managed by Mary and Helen Chapman and Ruth Allard.

Peter Masterton's family, accompanied by Elsie Wickens, took an auto trip round the mountains Sunday and enjoyed an ideal day.

Mrs. Nettie Potter died the night of the 6th after an illness of five years. She was about 55 years of age and leaves two daughters and two sons to mourn her loss. The funeral was held at the house Saturday afternoon. Interment was at Conway.

Ruth Allard has gone to the Intervale to assist in a hotel this week.

The janitor of the schoolhouse, Dana Bemis, is manufacturing a sidewalk in front of the school grounds which is a much needed improvement.

John McLoy and Ralph Twombly were in Portland Saturday.

An auto load of voters from here attended the Democratic rally in Fryeburg Wednesday evening.

C. E. Allard's family autoed through Bridgton and Lovell and spent the afternoon on Upper Kezar recently.

About twelve from this village propose to attend Fryeburg Academy this fall which begins next week.

—The Fryeburg Post, Fryeburg, Maine, Sept. 12, 1916, p. 3.